these conditions for which we found these differences injuries, intentional and unintentional injuries, diabetes and chronic disease, adolescent pregnancy disability, lung diseases, many of these things, the healthcare system has only a small impact on those things. >> bill: peter and i were talking about this yesterday doctor. so when you hear people say, as we do all the time, we have the best healthcare system in the world. >> yeah, well, unfortunately that's not entirely accurate. in many aspects our healthcare system does perform well, for example, in the u.s., blood pressure control rates are better than in other high-income countries. cholesterol control. >> bill: at least we win in some categories. >> we do. survival for cancer is better in the u.s. than in other countries. >> bill: is it? >> however, there are also deficiencies with the health system certainly the lack of coverage uninsurance is a major problem. there are other -- we don't emphasize primary healthcare and public health as much -- >> bill: or prevention. >> or prevention, exactly, as much as other countries do. the syste